To the Same.
ST. DAVID'S, Sept. 23, 1881.
DEAR FRIEND,--I am waiting with what patience I can, to hear whether
you have been to Meadville or not. . . . In that lovely but just
picture which you draw of my wife, and praise her patience at the
expense of mine, I doubt whether you fairly take into account the
difference between the sexes, not only in their nature, but in their
functions. We men take a forward, leading, decisive part in affairs,
the women an acquiescent part. The consequence is that they are more
yielding, gentler under defeat, than we. When I said, yesterday, "It
costs men more to be patient, to be virtuous, than it costs you,"--"Oh!
oh!" they exclaimed. But it is true. . . .